Saturday, August 2, 2014

Prosperity, Strength, Devotion

I hear him talking to the villagers, talking about me the way they do with young, blonde girls from across the seas. Elle est mignonne ta copine, mais... pourquoi si pâle?The
stories he tells them - about our parents hastily moving to Switzerland
to trade baroque paintings on the semi-legal market - are empty,
bottomless holes but he keeps on digging. Yesterday he came back from
Nice with a pair of silver gray silk-blend pants from Philipp Plein. "They're
for the narrative, you know, Swiss nationalism and so on", he says,
bursting with the restless excitement of a little child on the verge of
pulling off hispièce de résistance of elaborate pranks. He
puts them on, looks at himself in the mirror from every conceivable
angle, then at me. "I don't care that he's actually German" he says,
"I'm not getting a fucking Rolex".